Jim Nagoya - La Rencontre

The first three situational visuals are AI Visualizations based on photographs of the real object. The photographs of the real object are authoritative. Unique artwork with certificate of authenticity

- Original work on linen canvas stretched on a wooden frame without a frame
- Unique artwork with certificate of authenticity

Jim Nagoya is a French visual artist whose powerful, instinctive work sits at the crossroads of Expressionism, street art, and contemporary abstraction. Trained at the prestigious Écoles des Beaux-Arts of Paris and Amiens, he develops at an early stage a visceral artistic practice driven by an inner need to represent and reinvent the world.

His work, rich in symbols and raw energies, draws inspiration from major movements such as the Cobra movement, German Expressionism, Street Art, Surrealism, New Figuration, and American Abstract Expressionism. He joined the Street Art collective TBS alongside Jone Hopper and Skepa, exploring the interaction between art and urban space.

Jim Nagoya’s universe is an alchemy of major influences: Basquiat, Bacon, Picasso, Corneille, Condo, Jonone… but also the literary and cinema worlds of the Beat Generation and the underground California of the 1960s. This inspiration took him as far as Los Angeles, where he collaborated for several years with a renowned painter on the art scene.

Back in France, Jim Nagoya continues a strong trajectory. He has been repeatedly rewarded in national salons, regularly exhibits at the Grand Palais in Paris, and his works now join numerous private and public collections (town halls, departmental councils, etc.).

A personal, free, vibrant, and engaged pictorial language — a mirror of the impulses of the contemporary world, imbued with a unique symbolism.

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